Support Description

Version support matrix

The following table lists the software packages supported by the TorchNPU.

TorchNPU software package version	Current status	Release time	Follow-up status	EOL Date
2.14.0	Planned	Unpublished	Expected to be released in 2026/10	-
2.13.0	development	Unpublished	Expected to be released in 2026/10	-
2.12.0	development	2026 / 07 / 26	Expected to enter maintenance from 2027/01/26	-
2.11.0	development	2026 / 07 / 26	Expected to enter maintenance from 2027/01/26	-
2.10.0	development	2026 / 04 / 30	Expected to enter maintenance from 2026/10/30	-
2.9.0	development	2026 / 01 / 15	Expected to enter maintenance from 2026/10/15	-
2.8.0	Maintenance	2025 / 10 / 15	Expected to enter EOL from 2026/10/15	-
2.7.1	development	2025 / 10 / 15	Expected to enter maintenance from 2026/10/15	-
2.6.0	Maintenance	2025 / 07 / 25	Expected to enter EOL status from 2027/01/25	-
2.5.1	EOL	2024 / 11 / 08	-	2026 / 08 / 08
2.4.0	EOL	2024 / 10 / 15	-	2026 / 06 / 15
2.3.1	EOL	2024 / 06 / 06	-	2026 / 06 / 07
2.2.0	EOL	2024 / 04 / 01	-	2025 / 10 / 14
2.1.0	EOL	2023 / 10 / 15	-	2025 / 12 / 30
2.0.1	EOL	2023 / 7 / 19	-	2024 / 3 / 14
1.11.0	EOL	2023 / 4 / 19	-	2025 / 10 / 25
1.8.1	EOL	2022 / 4 / 10	-	2023 / 4 / 10
1.5.0	EOL	2021 / 7 / 29	-	2022 / 7 / 29

Maintenance Policy

The maintenance phases of the TorchNPU version are as follows:

Status	Time	Description
Planned	0--3 months before the first version release	Planned features, pre-development
development	0 to 6 months after the first version release	Develop new features, fix problems, and release new versions periodically.
Maintenance	Six to 12 months after the first release of the version	Fix major bugs and add new features. Release patch versions based on the impact of bugs.
End of Life (EOL)	More than 12 months after the first release of the version	The version does not accept any modification.